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W. 0. NELSON & JQN. YOUNG. Combined Stool and Cane.

No. 228,670. Patented June 8,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM O. NELsON, OF VALLEJO, AND JOHN N. YOUNG, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED STOOL AND CANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,670, dated June 8, 1880.

Application filed February 14, 1880 To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, WILLIAM CLARK NEL- SON, of Vallejo, Solano county, California, and JOHN NELLEs YOUNG, of Sacramento city, in

the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Stool and Cane; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representa- 1 tion of my device as a cane. Fig. 2 is a view showing the same as a stool; and Figs. 3, 4,

and 5 are detail views.

Our invention relates to a combined campstool and walking-stick peculiarly adapted for convenient and efficient service for artists,

travelers, sportsmen, and the like, and capable of easy and immediate change to either capacity; and the novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of parts and their adaptability to each other, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out our invention we employ two semi-cylindrical pieces, preferably of light firm wood, piw oted together at or near their centers with their flat surfaces adjacent to form the upper half of a sectional cane. The upper ends of these semi-cylindrical pieces are secured in sockets formed in semi-cylindrical frames, of burnished or'nickel-plated metal, one of which fits neatly within the other, and both of which together form a convenient cane-handle when they are in a closed condition. By aferrule we connect this cane- 40 section with its fellow or lower section, also formed of semi-cylindrical pieces pivoted in a manner and position corresponding to the section above described, and this section is provided with a suitable end or foot ferrule to prevent wear and hold the pieces firmly together.

The ends of the wooden sections which operate in the connecting-ferrule are provided with screw threads which engage femalethreaded portions within said ferrule. To prevent the threads on the wooden parts from becoming useless from wear we cut away the flat surface of the wooden semi-cylindrical parts in such a manner that they will have to be sprung in in Order to engage with the fer- 5 5 rules, and as thus constructed the spring will compensate for the wear.

As thus far describedthe device is arranged for a cane. To adapt it for a camp-stool it is only necessary to remove the tip and connecting-ferrules, open each section, and engage the ends of the lower section with the socket ends of the handle-frame, the endless cloth having previously been placed over the handles. This cloth when not in useis neatly stowed within the hollow handle.

Referring to the drawings, the upper section, A, is formed of the semicylindrical pieces B B, pivoted together with their flat surfaces adjacent at a, their upper portions being provided with tenons which are secured permanently within sockets b b, respectively, of the handle, as shown. The handle is formed of two parts, B B the part B being rigid with the piece B and inclosing the part B which is rigid with the piece B. The outer ends of the duplicate handle are formed into sockets 1) b as shown, which sockets receive the semicylindrieal pieces A, which are pivoted together at a when the device is arranged fora 8o camp-stool, and the longitudinal portion of the handle when closed forms a chamber, 0, in which an endless fabric, which forms the cover of the stool when in use, is stowed when said cover is not in use and the device is employed as a cane.

1) represents a connecting-ferrule provided with threaded inner surface, (I, and adapted to receive the ends of the wooden semi-cylindrical pieces B B A, which are not only also 0 threaded, but are cut away, as at 00, Fig. 5, and are sprung into engagement with the ferrule to provide for wear upon such Wooden parts.

A represents the tip-ferrule. 5

Pins are employed to secure the ferrules and sections together.

From the foregoing description the operation of the device is obvious.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is- 1. The camp-stool herein described, consistplex handle, B B b b 1) b as and for the purposes specified. c

In tcstimon y th at We claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence I 5 of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM CLARK NELSON. JOHN NELLES YOUNG.

Witnesses WILLIAM WEs'rHoFF, WILLIAM KUHNLE. 

